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Interviewing with Apple next week for the roles of Global Supply Manager (GSM) and Worldwide Procurement Analyst in Austin. Does anyone have any tips or advice for the interview? What kind of questions do they ask?
Also, what’s the compensation like in Austin specifically? I would think the compensation would be different than Cupertino. Anyone have any offers or salaries for these positions in Austin?
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I joined Cognizant recently, the project interview calls which I am getting is not from my base location.
I have the location constraint, should I wait for the right opportunity or raise this concern to ADP team so they can look in to it?
As per ADP policy, one should not have any constraints and take the project as FCFS basis.
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I was once flown to another city for an interview. When I arrived, no one knew I was coming but the HR person. The Creative Director didn’t even know who I was. I spent the day in a conference room waiting while they scrambled to see who could interview me. It was a HUGE waste of my time and it left me feeling like they were doomed for failure if you can’t even keep track of something as simple as a hiring process. That agency went bankrupt and closed two years later. Advice: if something feels bad and/or looks bad, run!
Let’s see...went in to chat with a GCD about a role. GCD had quickly mentioned in passing that he was tired and that his day was looking to be crazy.
Anyway, we continue to his office as he reviews my online portfolio and asks the old/tired question, “tell me about yourself?” So I start to rattle off my answer and within 10 seconds see his eyes start to close. I pause and ask “you alright?” He replies with his eyes still closed that he’s listening and to resume. Feeling a bit weird but want to believe him, I continue on. Then as I’m speaking can now hear him start breathing deeply which was then followed by light snoring. I stop and wonder to myself that this definitely weird. Then think, “am I being plunked?”
I blurt out and say “let’s reschedule, we can chat when it’s a better time.” He wakes up and apologizes profusely and says “please, please ...I’m all ears. Please continue.” Now, I’m debating to myself should I really continue or should I just bail when this a-hole falls asleep again? But ultimately decide to start going over my experience and he gets up from his office chair and now says, “I’ll listen better from down here” as he lays down on his carpeted office floor. I’m dumbstruck to his unprofessionalism and walk out. His assistant sees me walking out and says “that was quick!” And I mention he fell asleep and she apologizes and asks to reschedule. I say whatever and walk out. They called me shortly after but I never reschedule as I believe everything happens for a reason. Find out a bit later that agency had fired him for finally seeing his incompetence. I could of told them that after the few minutes that I saw him snoring.
#StrangeButTrue #AdvertisingFails
Clockout!1 You win this thread 😂🤣
When asked what's the best thing about the agency, they say it's the free snacks.
TRUTH
When the person I interviewed kept saying “I’m an expert in events and experiMential marketing” I finally asked if there is a difference in Experiential vs ExperiMential and she stared at me confused
This is the best/worst thing I’ve heard. I love it.
When someone greeted me in the lobby and said "welcome to Edelman".
When I asked why the role is open: “We has to let the last person go because the client kept making them cry”
Whoa
“How do you deal with difficult people?” 😥
Not going to lie, saving all these lines in my back pocket for some day in the future. Idk when or what, but I want to yell these lines at someone 😂😂
Someone (white Woman) using a “blaccent” and rolling their neck and saying “girl”.
I’m a Black woman
😒🤨
Don't even know you 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
A candidates father showed up on the first face to face interview and kept interjecting in the conversation..
Omg no joke, we had an interns parents come with them on their first day of work “to help get them setup!” It was horrifying and hilarious at the same time.
When someone asked “do you do drug tests and if there is any advance notice “
It’s a bummer employers don’t call it out in all job postings. Let’s save each other time, right? I just want to be able to smoke a j at night, in my house. #legalizeit 😂🤷♂️
A creative director looking at my book for the first time and just asking over and over again
Did you write this?
Did you write this case study?
Did you write this script?
Did you write these headlines?
Did you write this?
What did you write here?
No small talk. No "tell me about yourself". Just Did you wrote this? Over and over again.
Legit questions, if a tad aggressive
The interviewer said to me “there’s not a lot of room for creativity at this job”
My CD once told me that about one of our clients and then I sold them 6 spots that led directly to an interview at Weiden. I didn’t get that gig, but I got into Goodby a year later, and those spots were a big part of it.
When they ask for “test work” for free on agency projects. “Just to see your style and how fast you can produce”. Excuse me? Isn’t my portfolio, several reels and examples of campaigns enough? Especially when I have case studies about these projects, by a tech vendor, stating clearly I was the lead on the project?
No, I do not work for free. Hire me on a freelance project if you want to kick my creative tires. Don’t insult me with “can you I just make this short piece and we’ll get decide based the results?” It’s so shady to ask that and then use the work anyway, uncompensated.
I think skill assessments are OK if they are “part of” the interview and have a time limit.
My team does very specialized content for our client; very craft-oriented. When we interview interns, we leave each of them in a conference room by themselves for an hour and ask them to make us something based on a theme. After that hour is up, we talk about it to see how they discuss / defend their work. It’s as much a test of their quick-thinking and time management as it is a test of their physical skills (craftsmanship, neatness, ability to work with the materials). We see it as a skill and personality assessment only and not a way to get free work.
When I first moved to the city where I live now after college, I got talked into doing a “take home” project as a skills assessment as part of an interview. Had to design a full infographic overnight using the company’s brand guidelines. Spent easily 10+ hours on it and didn’t get any sleep. You can bet I never heard from that company again and got jack as payment for the free work I’d done for them. The agency who’d sent me on the interview said they’d follow up, but they never did. That was the one and only time I worked with a talent agency.
When I was interviewing for a junior position, the CD spent the whole time playing on his phone while I was presenting. Then he had critique and I told him that "had he been paying attention he would have noticed I had that in my book." So I packed up and walked out.
It's a pet peeve of mine to be on the phone while someone is sharing their work. Also, he had a terrible reputation around my hometown for being an ass so I didnt feel bad. A MUCH better opportunity rose in a few months after that interaction anyways
Early in my career, when the man I was interviewing with asked me if I took any media classes in college...then proceeded to pull my college media text book from his bookshelf - which he was the author!!! (had no idea) - and proceeded to quiz me from his book!
PS - got the job and got thrown under the bus and fired in 6 months!
Hilarious he quizzed you?!?
Interviewer called me the wrong name the entire time. I waited till the very end to ask who this person was.
Interviewer goes "Were not a 9-6 type of place, and were not for everyone..."
Totally fair but still a red flag
The CD interviewing me asked if I was Jewish (it's obvious), then spent the whole interview going on about the Israeli/Palestinian situation.
Totally illegal
Once went to an interview. Interviewer asked a lot of confusing basic questions, like “what does POP mean and have you done any?” Then she got up and excused herself. I sat in the conference room for 30 minutes and then finally went and asked where she went. Apparently, she quit and went home.
Shut up ... wait, seriously 😳
I mean we all have our days and today was hers apparently 🚶🏻♀️
During interview, there was a second candidate sitting next to me. Walked out when I realized what was happening.
Can’t take the heat get your ass out the kitchen